Difference between revisions of "Queer Pleasure & Politics - WordPress"

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WordPress is a web publishing platform available at Evergreen at http://blogs.evergreen.edu
Queer Pleasure and Politics students will be contributing to a group site at http://blogs.evergreen.edu/qppmap/

Your Assignment

Getting Started

• Getting Started with WordPress - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen?
• Login to the Landscapes of Change Dry Falls site

Driving in WordPress

• Dashboard Overview - get comfortable navigating the Dashboard and moving between Admin and Public view
• Change your profile info

Writing and Managing your content

Adding new posts

• Title your post with you Location

Categories and Tags

Adding Media

• Insert an image - add an image to the body a post
• Set your featured image for all posts. Featured images will appear in the global map balloons as well as at the top of each of your posts.
• Working with image galleries

Working with GeoMashup Google Maps plugin

• Set coordinates for each post using geo-mashup
• Add the following short code to embed a map of your post's location

[geo_mashup_map]

Additional Resources

• Wordpress.com Getting Started Tutorials - these tutorials are for working on wordpress.com but is nearly identical to using WordPress at blogs.evergreen.edu
  
• Lynda.com (on-campus) WordPress 3 Essential Training - this is another training geared towards using Wordpress.com but if you skip the account setup portion most of the rest is relavent to blogs.evergreen.edu